Gorran I know that that was just one of the first (rather weird) ideas I had when I first thought about the language issue ;-)
Feylin I didn't only mean the hassle of having to learn a language but the point of view from the outside...
Lets make a RL sample: Your going to Switzerland - what languages would you expect the people to speak? French, German and Italian (and maybe English but not in their day-to-day conversations) now you arrive and have to find out that they speak neither but use Esperanto instead. That is the situation a new player will find himself in ;-)
I for one wouldn't mind people using those languages but have been playing to seldom over the last 2 years to really learn such things.
I'm bad at learning languages, even so I'm rather well versed in German, English and Danish(in that order) and can understand bits of French (as I had to learn either that or Latin in School) and can even understand some tiny bits of Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese just because they are somewhat similar to the languages I already know (not talking about Dutch, Norwegian and Swedish here as those are obvious). Furthermore I've started to understand a little bit (spoken) Japanese because of my love for Anime ;-)
Feylin I didn't only mean the hassle of having to learn a language but the point of view from the outside...
Lets make a RL sample: Your going to Switzerland - what languages would you expect the people to speak? French, German and Italian (and maybe English but not in their day-to-day conversations) now you arrive and have to find out that they speak neither but use Esperanto instead. That is the situation a new player will find himself in ;-)
I for one wouldn't mind people using those languages but have been playing to seldom over the last 2 years to really learn such things.
I'm bad at learning languages, even so I'm rather well versed in German, English and Danish(in that order) and can understand bits of French (as I had to learn either that or Latin in School) and can even understand some tiny bits of Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese just because they are somewhat similar to the languages I already know (not talking about Dutch, Norwegian and Swedish here as those are obvious). Furthermore I've started to understand a little bit (spoken) Japanese because of my love for Anime ;-)
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